I'm working from home today, nursing the tail-end of a bug that I hit about mid-afternoon Friday and sapped my strength most of the beautiful weekend. So much for gardening. On this day in history: In 1897, Dracula, a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker…
I was privileged to take a photo of "Five Generations of Women" shortly before my 93 year-old Grandmother passed away last year.The photo shown below, features the hands of my Grandmother, Mom, Sister, Niece and Great-Niece.While I can't take credit for the idea, I was…
Kage Mann: Wow, I forgot about that Community Center and the sad part about that is I attended Junior High there in the mid-70's.I read an article that said the CDA community hasn't had a C.C. for 60 years.So, apparently some people never considered that…
Chuck Young along with his great-grandchildren, from left Keira, Macaylee, Brayden and Destiny wait at the Social Security office in Coeur d'Alene earlier this spring in order to obtain the proper documents for an Idaho Identification card. Alison Boggs and photographer Kathy Plonka have been…
Veteran school board member Edie Brooks reports to Coeur d'Alene police that 60 of her yard signs were taken without her permission from locations along 15th Street Friday and Saturday. Brooks, who has served on the Coeur d'Alene School Board for 11 years, told Huckleberries…
5:11 p.m. 4 people involved in a fight with a baseball bat @ Mullan & 10th Place/CdA.5:10 p.m. Someone has finally caught the two horses that have been running loose on Ridgeway, causing a coupla R/Ps to call authorities.4:08 p.m. EMTs are trying to revive…
This is how our dock looks after a winter with a record amount of snow. Dave is determined to fix it. I suggested using the last of our M80s to blow it up. He's not listening to me. Hopefully the repair work doesn't kill him.…
Kootenai County’s second case of Novel H1N1 flu was confirmed Monday by the Idaho State Laboratory, bringing the state’s total cases to nine. The patient, who is no longer contagious, is a student at Ramsey Elementary School in Coeur d’Alene. The child did not attend…
The other classmate that passed recently was Debbie. I never said one word to her all the way thru school, but I didn't say a lot to very much of anyone back then. She was always one of those people who was "around"; she always…
Gov. Chris Gregoire is surrounded by children and adults as she signs the "everything but marriage" law Monday in Seattle. The law will take effect at the end of July and expands on previous domestic partnership laws, adding partnerships to all remaining areas of state…
Lew2nl: Now here's a deal for you …Ad from today's 'local' paper” -- "Custom made diamond wedding set, yellow gold, size 6 1/4, .30 CARROTS, never worn …"Question: Anyone want to make up a story to go with that advertisement?
Item: Idaho among nation’s leaders in delivering transportation stimulus/Idaho Business ReviewNick Adams: In spite of all the hand-wringing, teabagging and declarations of sovereignty, Idaho sure isn't wasting time trying to get its hands on federal transportation stimulus dollars. Only fellow deep-red Oklahoma has secured more…
The kite string hit the ground and was dragged through a bunch of brown stalks in the rocky outcropping. Before anyone could say "poison ivy," we knew we might be in big trouble. Three grandkids with poison ivy would not be fun. I was extreme…
A hen duck and her 12 ducklings create a parade-like atmosphere as they cross the Lilac Parade route while trying to march to the Spokane River Saturday in downtown Spokane. The ducks are the ones that nested and hatched on a downtown awning where they…
JeanC: I woke up yesterday with a hot scratchy throat and I still have a slight burning sensation in the top of my lungs this morning. Kinda like when I started to get the crud a while back. I am hoping it is just from…
There will be no streamers, cakes, or balloons. Honestly, I'm too busy finishing up our last two weeks of the homeschool year to think about any kind of celebration of this blog's 5th anniversary. Yup, it was five years ago today that I wrote my…
Secelia Garrett-King of Galveston competes before judges during the vintage-inspired swim wear contest at the Galveston Island Beach Revue on the beach in Galveston, Texas, Saturday. Garrett-King won second runner-up in the competition. The Islander By Choice group resurrected the legendary Bathing Beauties Pageant this…
Re: Happy (expletive deleted job hunting)/Nic, Rants, Raves & Random ThoughtsNic: He takes our order and the food came out quicker than I expected. We talked and enjoyed the food. The waiter stopped by a couple times to check how things were going.The last time…
Fun’s over, kiddies. Life is hard. The economy sucks. It’s time you brats grew up and started suffering like your stressed-out mothers and fathers. Yep, it’s adios to Spokane’s long, benevolent summertime tradition of free swimming for youth. The Park Board voted last Thursday to…
In this AP file photo, comics, including Batman #1, left, and Marvel Mystery Comics #9 are shown at Heritage Auction Galleries, in Dallas. The comics, collected by Ralph Chicorel as a child in Detroit, will be up for auction this week and the collection is…
But last semester (Winter 2009), the BYU-Idaho administration announced that both the College Republicans and the College Democrats, (both student-run political organizations), would be dissolved in an effort to comply with changes to the BYU-Idaho political neutrality policy. "We are trying to ensure that BYU-Idaho…
A University of Notre Dame graduate displays on her mortar board her membership in the ND Response Pro-Life group, bottom right, and another graduate with a Barack Obama campaign emblem on their mortar board, top left, participate in commencement ceremonies in South Bend, Ind., Sunday.…
Items and foods that have been discontinued, outdated or packaged in irregular containers are the inventory of Bargain Foods & Treasures. The discount store opened last week at 811 N. Fourth St. The 4,100-square-foot building had been the home of the Idaho Youth Ranch Thrift…
Gov. Butch Otter has another alternative in his tool box for responding to the Idaho Legislature's refusal to raise taxes to meet the $240 million annual road maintenance shortfall. He can reduce the size of the state's road system. That sounds like blasphemy, but hear…
Tony Marohn hold his one-month-old daughter Thelia at his home in Coeur d'Alene recently. He along with Brett Evans is opening a home for disabled veterans in Moyie Springs. Story here. (Kathy Plonka/Spokesman-Review)Idaho Records/Sherry Adkins, SRRut repair on I-90 begins today/Mike Prager, SRSummer temps reign…
D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.
